Oracle's powerful database is now available on AWS in a limited preview

With Oracle's Exadata Database available on AWS in a limited preview, AWS users can now benefit from smooth integration, AI tools, and quicker migrations.

Oracle Corp. revealed a restricted peek of its Exadata Database solution on the cloud platform of Amazon Web Services Inc. on Monday. This statement fulfills promises Oracle made in September that seemed to settle the long-running conflict between the two businesses. Larry Ellison, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Oracle, has frequently made fun of his cloud competitor, claiming in 2018 that Oracle had a database advantage over Amazon of 10 to 20 years. Amazon retorted that RedShift from AWS was technically superior to Oracle's data warehouse and that Oracle's data warehouse was not cloud-native.

Now, such distinctions seem to have vanished. Starting with the AWS US East Region, AWS clients will soon be able to operate Oracle's Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on AWS infrastructure. They already have comparable features on Google LLC's Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp. Azure.

The most popular database management system in the world, according to SolidIT Consulting & Software Development gmbh's DB-Engines ranking, is Oracle, followed by its open-source cousin MySQL. They claim to have over 430,000 clients in 195 countries.

Customers can use a low-latency network connection to move Oracle Database workloads, such as Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Cluster, to the cloud. Applications based on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, such as AWS Analytics services, may more readily link to data in their Oracle databases.

Additionally, they may benefit from AWS's AI offerings, such as Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that gives users access to a variety of foundation models from Amazon and other suppliers. Oracle said that it will run and oversee the Oracle Exadata Database Service.

Under the agreement, Oracle Database@AWS, which is controlled via the AWS Management Console, offers unified database management, pricing, and customer support. Oracle's Zero Downtime Migration tools can speed up the migration process, and using Oracle databases is eligible for existing AWS commitments and features like Bring Your Own License, which allows businesses to apply their current Oracle software licenses to comparable cloud services.